Cancer

"Rowdy" Roddy Piper, one the iconic villains when professional wrestling boomed into a profitable pay-to-view television event, died Thursday at his home in Los Angeles. He was 61. Piper, whose real name was Roderick George Toombs, died "peacefully in his sleep" , according to his talent agent, Jay Schachter. "I am shocked and beyond devastated. He was an amazing man and a true friend. He was one of the most generous, sincere and authentic people I have ever known," Schachter wrote in an email. "This is a true loss to us all." Piper was diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma in 2006, and completed radiation therapy the following...

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Surgical oncologists from across the Eastern seaboard and Europe will gather at the fourth annual Mid-Atlantic Peritoneal Malignancy workshop hosted by Eastern Virginia Medical School and the Sentara Cancer Network on Thursday and Friday.
They'll be...

Former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Carly Fiorina said Monday she will seek to become the United States' first female president, joining a crowded field for the Republican presidential nomination."Yes, I am running for president," Fiorina said on...

When Rick Sample, now 50, received a diagnosis of colon cancer in October 2012, he was the fifth person in his family, including his older brother, to be diagnosed with the disease — and at a relatively early age.
That family history made him a candidate...

The radiation therapy center and the Good Health Pharmacy are now operational on the first floor of the four-story, $22.3 million Bon Secours Cancer Institute at DePaul Medical Center. Construction of the multidisciplinary center that includes procedure...

They meld into the workout scene on the second floor of the Newport News YMCA, distinguished only by their wristbands. One tackles the treadmill, a few are on the elliptical trainers and others sweat it out on the rowing machine and stationary bikes.
The...

Has anyone else encountered those pesky add-on charges that have emerged for doctor's visits? A facilities fee here; a "medical diagnosis" co-pay for a visit to get your eyes checked (that's in addition to the vision insurance co-pay); and a...

For Sandra Dianna, a Hampton school teacher, the BSGI test proved a lifesaver.
The "breast specific gamma imaging" camera — BSGI — discovered her breast cancer before it had time to spread. Within three days of discovering the malignancy,...

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Multiple myeloma is a cancer of the cells in the bone marrow that affects 750,000 people worldwide; it is an uncontrolled growth of plasma cells which attack and destroy bone and damage the kidneys and immune system.
In the United States, there are about...

C.J. Woollum, who built a mountainous legacy at Christopher Newport and was one of the area's prominent athletic figures, died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. He was 64.
Woollum's retirement was cruelly cut short last July when he was diagnosed...

At 1 p.m. on Friday, his 7th birthday, Wes Pak completed his seventh cycle of 3F8 monoclonal antibody treatment at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. At 6 p.m. his family greeted him on the tarmac at Rick's Aviation in Newport News,...

BLACKSBURG — With his dad spotting him Friday in Virginia Tech's football weight room, Chase Ringler desperately threw every ounce of his 54-pound body into trying to bench press the 45-pound bar above him. At first, the bar barely budged, but he slowly...

A worthy cause, a local event and a young roster made for an easy decision by Hampton University men’s basketball coach Ed Joyner Jr.Joyner and the Pirates will play an exhibition game Monday night at Christopher Newport to benefit Coaches vs....

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Four years ago, Karen Garner received a phone call she'll never forget.Her husband, Jim, traveling on business in Savannah, Ga., called to tell her he was looking at the same bridge that they'd seen on a recent vacation.She hung up the phone in her...

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